"The economy is still in the gravitational pull of the Great Recession. All the booster rockets for getting us beyond it are failing."
Steel workers’ unions at Corus have blasted the company’s latest pay offer as "unacceptable".
Repairs and maintenance workers at Cumbria’s Home Group housing association have begun an industrial action ballot over a pay freeze.
The Blacklist Support Group won the Hazards Campaign Alan Award 2010 last week.
Around 200 workers struck at the Astrum plant in Stanhope, County Durham, on Thursday of last week over the lack of a pay rise.
The nominating period for the general secretary election in Unite, Britain’s biggest union, has begun.
Cleaners on the London Underground celebrated last week after it was confirmed that they will all be paid the London Living Wage of £7.85.
Rail workers at the collapsed Jarvis maintenance company have been told they will not receive a penny of the unpaid wages they are owed.
Hundreds marched through the streets of Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire to defend their local hospital last Saturday.
Southampton Library staff in Southampton are to strike for two days over plans to use volunteers to replace librarians.
Cabin crew at British Airways (BA) are voting on a new offer from management.